Published on June 18th, 2009 51 appreciated comments »

Starting a business isn’t easy. That’s a given. But when people have tread the path before you, it’s tempting to imitate. After all, if they’re successful, why not do it just like them and be successful too? Thing is, you’re not like the others. People don’t do business with you because you work like someone else. They choose you because of who you are.
→ Continue reading Imitation vs differentiation
Archived under Branding, Marketing.
Published on June 1st, 2009 35 appreciated comments »

With design, a failure is much easier to measure than a success. Especially when the cock-up costs your company tens of millions.
→ Continue reading Measuring the success, and failure, of branding
Archived under Branding.
Published on December 31st, 2008 28 appreciated comments »

You can only estimate the value of a brand that has lived through four centuries, so at what cost is a name-change from one established more than 200 years ago, to another born this decade?
→ Continue reading The true cost of rebranding?
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Published on November 4th, 2007 101 appreciated comments »

When someone tells you they’re a freelancer, be it freelance graphic design or another profession, what are your immediate thoughts?
Does the freelance job title portray an impression of expert, or of someone who is new to the field, perhaps picking up some earnings to make ends meet? There’s an excellent discussion happening here in the reader comments.
→ Continue reading Are freelance designers really suckers?
Archived under Branding, Business.
Published on August 14th, 2007 51 appreciated comments »

To a kid, everything’s better in a McDonald’s wrapper.
Are your kids McDonald’s brainwashed?
→ Continue reading Advertising to children: right or wrong?
Archived under Advertising, Branding, Marketing.
Published on May 13th, 2007 34 appreciated comments »

Your personal brand is everything about you and what others think about you. With the increase in social networking sites, avatars (those little images you upload from your computer to visually identify online profiles) play an important role in brand recognition.
→ Continue reading Use your avatar to build brand recognition
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Published on March 17th, 2007 23 appreciated comments »

When I asked what you thought of my blog, I had no idea you’d provide such great suggestions.
I’d really appreciate your thoughts on this new look for my humble logo design blog.
→ Continue reading Here’s the re-design you asked for, any better?
Archived under Blogs, Branding.
Published on March 9th, 2007 29 appreciated comments »

Large corporations need consumers much more than vice versa, but SONY have been making the headlines lately for all the wrong reasons.
→ Continue reading How SONY killed their brand? A case study
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Published on March 8th, 2007 23 appreciated comments »

Here I present a few of the more effective logo designs from the LogoPond website. What’s your opinion? Do you use LogoPond for inspiration?
→ Continue reading Just how good are LogoPond’s logos?
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Published on February 26th, 2007 32 appreciated comments »

Graphic designers are up in arms after Italy unveiled it’s new identity with the ‘it’ logo design shown above. The choice is a mystery.
→ Continue reading Italia logo design from Landor
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